Subsequent Developments
After Hwang Woo-Suk was dismissed from the university, veterinary professor Lee Byung-Chun took over leadership of the team behind Snuppy. In 2008, Snuppy became involved in the first known successful breeding between cloned canines, after sperm taken from Snuppy was used to artificially inseminate two cloned females, which resulted in the birth of 10 puppies. Nine of the puppies survived. The SNU team, under Lee, have gone on to successfully clone over 30 dogs and five wolves. After successfully breeding the cloned wolves, Lee claimed that the ability to breed cloned canines makes it possible for working dogs which are usually sterilised before training, such as sniffer dogs and guide dogs, to reproduce. SNU, which claims to own the patent for the process used to clone Snuppy, formed a license agreement with RNL Bio, a commercial pet cloning company. Hwang entered into a partnership with RNL Bio's competitor, BioArts International, which caused an on-going legal battle into who owns the patent rights. RNL completed the first commercial cloning in August 2008.
The world's first cloned sniffer dogs (all of which are named Toppy) were put to work by South Korean customs in July 2009.
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